EvoWiki (formally known as the Evolution Education wiki) was a evolution- and origins-centered wiki,[1][2] inspired by Talk Origins,[3][4] that peaked at 3,071 articles, glossary pages, essays, and book reviews[5] before going dormant. It is presently being merged into Rationalwiki, so many of those pages are now on Rationalwiki.

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EvoWiki's encyclopedic content included basic level articles giving a general introduction to a subject that lead to technical articles giving more in depth coverage of the same subject.[6][7] EvoWiki further, much like Rationalwiki, had discussion of recent evolution- and creationism-related news,[8][9] using the wiki,[10] and general discussion.[11]

EvoWiki consistently opposed creationism,[2] and its content was dominated by such opposition. Its most notable and controversial content is its staggeringly large catalog of refutations of arguments against the theory of evolution or in favor of young Earth or intelligent design creationism.[12] The list occasionally mirrors issues treated in Mark Isaak's famous Index of Creationist Claims at the talk.origins archive[13] but provides hundreds of well researched and documented supplemental and complimentary entries rather than duplicate talk.origins material.[14]

EvoWiki's effective treatment of creationist canards earned it the ire of the angry biblical literalists at CreationWiki who created several articles attempting to rebut refutations made on EvoWiki in typical creationist fashion.[18]

EvoWiki went offline in December 2008 due to technical problems that remained unfixed for a year and a half, finally returning in June 2010. Because of this long downtime, the site was very inactive until it was eventually taken down in November 2010 due to the cost of hosting. Its final database dump can be found dump|here.

EvoWiki is now located at the domain evolutionwiki.org. It is locked to changes except by a few curator users. The wiki is now owned by the RationalMedia Foundation, and our goal is ultimately to incorporate all relevant material into RationalWiki.